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        <h1>NES Starter Kit</h1>
        <p>Simplified starter kit for making NES games using C and graphical tools. <br/ >Playable on real NES consoles!</p>
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            <h2 class="header-light regular-pad">What is NES Starter Kit?</h2>
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              NES Starter Kit is a simple, fully-featured NES game paired with a 
              complete guide to changing every piece of it. It uses C for almost all
              of its code, so you do not have to learn assembly to make it work. It also
              uses GUI tools such as <a href="https://www.mapeditor.org/">Tiled</a> and
              <a href="http://famitracker.com/">Famitracker</a> to build your resources. If you're
              familiar with writing code, you shouldn't have much trouble picking this up
              and making a game to run on your own NES. (That's right, it works on real NES
              consoles!)
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            <h3 class="text-center">Try it now!</h3>

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            Try it out for yourself; there should be an emulator with the starter game in it just above this!
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            If that's not working, (or you just prefer a better/faster emulator) 
            <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/nes-starter-kit/master/starter.latest.nes">download the rom</a>!
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